eva bevec

⭕️ Following ETC. Magazine’s curatorial framework for this year’s Ljubljana Art Weekend, the visual identity is conceived by Eva Bevec. In Eva Bevec’s photographic series In 𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓜𝓮𝓶𝓸𝓻𝔂 𝓸𝓯, the seemingly joyful motif of flowers belies a deeper meditation on the inescapable cycles of repetition, ritual, and mortality. At first glance, the flower arrangements evoke a sense of springlike lightness and renewal, yet the fact that the photographs were taken at Slovenian graveyards grounds them in the tradition of funeral flowers – a centuries-old practice meant to honour the dead and comfort the living. Chrysanthemums, lilies, gerberas, carnations and gladioli, typical Slovenian funeral blooms, are framed through Bevec’s visual language, which highlights everyday life, habits and overlooked details, often verging on the absurd, to reveal deeper social dynamics. Each flower becomes charged with symbolic weight, unfolding as patterns of care and remembrance that repeat across generations. Commissioned for this year’s Ljubljana Art Weekend in response to the theme 𝓕𝓾𝓵𝓵 𝓒𝓲𝓻𝓬𝓵𝓮, the series reflects on how we collectively manage memory and amnesia, and how traditions both help us process loss and reinforce repetition — a kind of social muscle memory. #LJUBAW2026 Organisation: @ravnikar_org Curated by: @_etcmagazine Main sponsor: @rutar_slovenija Ljubljana Art Weekend is supported by the Municipality of Ljubljana and the Ministry of Culture.

[ 𝐊𝐄𝐄𝐏 𝐎𝐅𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐒𝐒 - 𝐀 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 ] • 2025 The publication is a collection of 5 texts • exploring human relationship to nature, natural resources, categorisation and optimisation of nature to serve humans. We are reflecting, corresponding, journaling about our experience of living, learning and studying in The Netherlands. 🌀 𝐀𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐃𝐌𝐬 “The level of designed discipline in daily life shocked me and I found myself in search of a way out. Ironically, I found it back home, in the very lack of comprehensive design solutions, in the incompetence of the system to produce the perfect world, in its inability to exercise total control - in accidental anarchy dictated by the force of necessity.” Texts by Gaja Pegan Nahtigal @fromgaja @gpngpngpn Eva Bevec @usodna Eva Garibaldi @va_garibaldi Ana Laura Richter @analaura_richter Lea Topolovec @cd_yknyu Thanks to Debra Solomon @debrasolomon_uhoeve for contributing with the beautiful introduction, @usodna for graphic design, @osmoza for exhibition space and @mol for financial support.

fake grass, a white picket fence, orange bricks and Buddha statues that have replaced garden gnomes (the final boss of human attempts to control nature, shaping it into something predictable and domesticated) ꩜ more a symbol of nature and its spiritual awakening than nature itself. Thanks to everyone who joined us for the opening of “𝑲𝑬𝑬𝑷 𝑶𝑭𝑭 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑮𝑹𝑨𝑺𝑺”. The reading session brought together fragments of our graduation projects, shaped during our years studying art and design in the Netherlands. Living in such an engineered landscape has reshaped how we understand land, ourselves, and the power dynamics between humans and the rest of nature. We’re grateful to have shared this introspection with you all, and we hope the conversation keeps growing. Special thanks to @osmo_za & @reavogrincic 🩷 With the support of @mestnaobcinaljubljana ph: @izastrumbelj & @cd_yknyu Xx eva eva alr lea gaja ꩜

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me x 6 year old Eva Bevec

NE HODI PO TRAVI (Seansa za vračanja) / KEEP OFF THE GRASS (A Gathering for Returning) Otvoritev/Opening ponedeljek/Monday, 3. 11. 2025 | 18.00 Razstava/Exhibition 3.–6. 11. 2025 Osmo/za Slovenska 54 Ljubljana Kolektiv/Collective: Eva Bevec, Eva Garibaldi, Gaja Pegan-Nahtigal, Lea Topolovec in Ana Laura Richter Med letoma 2019 in 2021 smo se zaradi študija na različnih umetnostnih in oblikovalskih akademijah iz Slovenije preselile na Nizozemsko. Dislokacija v sterilno, nadzorovano in neskončno predvidljivo krajino je v nas sprožila razmisleke o naravi, domu, odtujenosti, zemlji, marginalnih prostorih, vrtičkih, močvirjih, počasnosti minevanja in cikličnosti, ki so postali osrednje teme naših umetniških raziskovanj. Skozi prihajajočo seanso in publikacijo Ne hodi po travi tokrat sopostavljamo fragmente in odvode svojih študijskih projektov, ki naslavljajo izkušnje razpetosti med obema okoljema in preizprašujejo delovanje urbanih in naravnih (eko)sistemov, ki jih opazujemo skozi različna merila. Dogodek deluje kot vstopna točka v raziskovanje predstavljenih projektov in relacij med njimi. Lepo vabljeni_e, da se nam pridružite ob otvoritvi ali na dogodkih spremljevalnega programa, ki bo objavljen kmalu. 🌳🌫️🧱 — Between 2019 and 2021, we moved to the Netherlands to study at various art and design academies. The dislocation into a sterile, controlled, and endlessly predictable landscape provoked reflections on nature, home, alienation, soil, marginal spaces, gardens, swamps, and the slowness of time. These concepts gradually become the core of our artistic practices. Through the upcoming Gathering and the publication Keep Off the Grass, we juxtapose fragments and extensions of our student projects that address the experience of being split between the two environments and question the dynamics of urban and natural (eco)systems, which we observe through different scales. The event is an entry point for exploring our projects and the relations between them. You are kindly invited to join us at the opening or at the accompanying program events, which will be announced soon. 🌳🌫️🧱 S podporo/With the support of @mestnaobcinaljubljana

🚨 🍁🍂 Z jesenjo prihaja nova sezona družinskega mita. 🍂🍁🚨 Pogrebščina je odprla prostor, da se zgodi obred rojstva. Nova Riso Paradiso* družina je kolektiv šestih umetnic in umetnikov z različnih področij (grafično oblikovanje, ilustracija, fotografija, slikarstvo). Kolektiv prevzema tradicijo naših predhodnikov, ki so se povezali zaradi skupnih interesov na polju samozaložništva, fanzinov, knjig umetnic_kov, grafike in tiskanja drugih manjših umetniških edicij. Nova družina ni le nadaljevanje – je transformacija. 🚀 Vabljeni, da z nami nadaljujete Riso Paradiso* pot. *Spet z vami, tokrat: Luka Prelog, Lenart Marovt, Jan Hostnik, Eva Bevec, Iris Kren in Hana Besjedica. Kontakt po starem: [email protected] @risoparadiso Več info: https://risoparadiso.family/ --- 🚨🍁🍂 The fall is bringing a new season of the family myth. 🍂🍁🚨 The burial ceremony opened up a new space for a birth ritual. The new Riso Paradiso* family is a collective of six artists from different fields (graphic design, illustration, photography, painting). The collective is inheriting the tradition of our predecessors, who came together around shared interests in self-publishing, zines, artists’ books, printmaking, and other small-scale art editions. The new family is not just a continuation – it is a transformation. 🚀 We invite you to continue the Riso Paradiso* journey with us. *With you again, this time: Luka Prelog, Lenart Marovt, Jan Hostnik, Eva Bevec, Iris Kren, and Hana Besjedica. The contacts, same as before: [email protected] @risoparadiso More info: https://risoparadiso.family/

Eva Bevec @usodna , The Sandbox, 2023 - ongoing The Sandbox is a personal documentary photography project that started developing during my critical design studies in Eindhoven, as a counterweight to the stress-heavy environment and the overly-restrictive institutional framework of design education. Initially, I started documenting the weird encounters within the mundane of my regular “mental health walks,” which became an exercise in looking — a game that motivated me to keep walking. The routine developed into a methodology that extended beyond the walks into my daily activities. The phone was replaced by a camera, but the curious gaze, fascinated by the absurd, remained the same. Gradually, a project started coming together: fragmented, eclectic, weird, and honest. Like a sandbox — seemingly basic yet brimming with boundless potential — it is following me organically, helping me to develop a visual language and evolve my photographic practice through the interpretation of the seemingly banal. Eva Bevec (1998) is a designer, visual artist and photographer based in Ljubljana. She completed her BA in Graphic Design at UL ALUO (2020) and her MA in Information Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands (2023). She has exhibited her work at home and abroad (including Dutch Design Week, Biennale Brumen, MSUM). In her practice, she employs the methods of essay film, documentary photography and archival research to question the seemingly everyday and banal aspects of her surroundings, disclosing deeper social, political and aesthetic issues. Photo 1: @borcvetko

Eva Bevec, 1998 In Search of Yugoslavia, 2022 publication, self-published 24 x 17 cm, 118 pages @usodna #bookdesign #tito #yugoslaviadesign #slovenijadesign #studioslovenija

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in the summer we wrote something for Robida 10 with @analaurarichter @usodna @cd_yknyu @gpngpngpn 💌 this is not a text about being homesick, but a correspondence threading through complicated feelings between here and there. on navigating the margin in-between. on home, alienation, practice, situatedness, belonging, landscape, feelings, nature, softness, community, individual experiences becoming collective, friendship. these are fragments of raw fragmented thoughts, an exercise of holding space for each other, a space of unraveling, of trying to make sense out of things without a goal. text in slovenian (a very conscious choice) thank you @r_o_b_i_d_a for giving us this space. get a copy at your local bookshop 🐈‍⬛

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